Good suggestions. One thing to be aware of: USB ports include a power supply
pin. If the USB is wired backwards, the supply will be on the wrong pin -
something you plug in may not like that.
If possible, you might want to get the USB port pinout (easily found on the
web) and check with a voltmeter whether the port is backwards or not. Good
luck.

"Michael Walraven" wrote:
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> My Dell BIOS has separate enable settings for the front and the rear USB
> ports, yours might also.
>
> A long shot: I had a machine that the front set of USBs did not work, the
> connector had been installed backward onto the mother board, took me a long
> time to find that as I was not expecting such an error.
>
> Michael
>
> "Corymca" <Corymca@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:560884DD-A949-40FC-9ACF-763A2D280013@microsoft.com...[color=green]
> >I have 2 computers, both with MSI Motherboards. On both of them I cannot
> >get
> > the front USB ports to work in Vista....I have talked to MSI and they are
> > saying they should just work...But I have tried connecting the case and a
> > internal card reader but it doens;t work. Any ideas[/color]
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